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The democrats are freezing spending in virtually every case at 2006 levels, and it’s being called a “massive spending bill.” The media isn’t biased in favor of dems; they’re biased in favor of the dominant narratives.  Democrats are profligate spenders, republicans are frugal but heartless (is there any doubt that if this spending bill were passed by a republican congress, the story would characterize the spending freeze as “severe cuts in spending, including funds for needing children” or something?

JPE, why aren’t the Dems letting the Republicans debate the bill?

There’s more here than meets the eye

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Gosh, you mean folks are surprised by this behaviour?  It is the very essence of so-called ‘democratic’ methodology (in quotes because there is very little democratic about it, much as in the way many communist ‘Democratic Republics’ were neither democratic nor republic) which is to spend other peoples money in the way they see fit and to do so with no dissent or input from others. 

They want unfettered power and limitless money.  To consider Democrats in any other fashion is to misunderstand them.

...for great justice

Rob, I presume this bill is a floor, not a ceiling.  It provides necessary funds but doesn’t exhaust fiscal year spending.  Unless the GOP really had their hearts set on stripping funds from DHS, there’s not much to debate.